Dissertations

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Anthony Meyer

The Givers of Things: Tlamacazqueh and the Art of Religious Making in the Mexica and Early Transatlantic Worlds

Adviser: Stella Nair
  • 2023
  • UCLA

Early Modern

#Architecture#Central American#Religion#Sculpture

Patricia Lagarde

Facing Pilgrimage: Tenon Head Sculptures at the Ceremonial Center of Chavín de Huántar, Peru

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2022
  • Tulane University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Archaeology#Ancient Americas

Martijn van Beek

Artifex. Architectural Reasoning, Drawing and Rhetoric in the Oeuvre of Friar Juan Ricci de Guevara (1600-1681)

Adviser: Freek Schmidt
  • 2021
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Early Modern

#Architecture#Works on Paper#Religion#Theory and Historiography

Rebecca Teresi

Images of the Immaculate Conception and the Rhetorics of Purity in Golden Age Spain

Adviser: Felipe Pereda
  • 2021
  • Johns Hopkins University

Early Modern

#Court Studies#Ideology and Politics#Religion

Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink

Francisco de Zurbarán and his Workshop’s Painting Production for the Americas: Trade, Collections and Reception

Adviser: Jean Michel Massing
  • 2021
  • University of Cambridge

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal#Painting#Patronage#South American

Emily Sessions

Fertile Terrain: Botany, Art, and Power in Cuba’s Nineteenth Century

Adviser: Edward Cooke
  • 2020
  • Yale University

Lorraine Affoutit

Visualizing Decolonial Democracy in the Oaxaca Commune

Adviser: Martin Berger
  • 2020
  • UC Santa Cruz

Modern and Contemporary

#Central American

Maria Dorofeeva

Making men: Spanish art and the politics of masculinity, 1898-1936

Adviser: Not specified
  • 2020
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Modern and Contemporary

#Works on Paper#Gender Studies#Queer Studies

Kristopher Driggers

The History of Idolatry and the Codex Durán Paintings

Adviser: Claudia Brittenham
  • 2020
  • University of Chicago

Early Modern

#Ancient Americas

Elizabeth Frasco

American Women Artists of the New Deal and Mexico, 1934–1943

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2020
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

Margarita Aguilar

Traditions and Transformations in the Work of ADAL: Surrealism, El Sainete, and Spanglish

Adviser: Margarita Aguilar
  • 2020
  • City University of New York

Elizabeth Cerejido

Where Is Cuban American Art? Artistic Production, Identity Formation and Cultural Politics from the 1980s to the Present

Advisers: Maya Stanfield-Mazzi and Kaira Cabañas
  • 2020
  • University of Florida

Nenette Arroyo

Loca Sancta in the New World: The Creation of Sacred Space in the Spanish California Missions, 1769–1823

Advisers: R. G. Wilson and L. Nelson
  • 2020
  • University of Virginia

18th / 19th Centuries

#Colonial and Viceregal

Susana Rodriguez

Performing Exile: Cuban-American Women’s Performance Art, 1972–2014

Adviser: Oscar Vazquez
  • 2020
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Raphaelle Occhietti

Révéler par l’art les enjeux politiques et matériels de l’économie: La monnaie, la dette, le profit et la valeur vus à travers les matières premières dans trois performances de Marta Minujín (1985, 1996, 2017)

Advisers: Olivier Asselin and Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
  • 2020
  • Université de Montréal

Sonia de Laforcade

Audio-Visual: The Slide as Medium in Brazilian Art

Adviser: Irene Small
  • 2020
  • Princeton University

Brian Bentley

Pop Artists of Underdevelopment: 1960s Brazilian New Objectivity

Adviser: Edward Sullivan
  • 2020
  • New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

María Lumbreras

The Facture of Evidence: Portraits, Painting and Artistic Knowledge in Spain, 1590-1640

Adviser: Felipe Pereda
  • 2020
  • Johns Hopkins University

Early Modern

#Archaeology#Material Culture

William Gassaway

Extraordinary Bodies: The Art of Deformation in Postclassic Mexico

Adviser: Esther Pasztory
  • 2019
  • Columbia University

Ancient / Late Antique

#Ancient Americas

Lucia Abramovich

Precious Materiality in Colonial Andean Art: Gold, Silver, and Jewels in Paintings of the Virgin

Adviser: Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • 2019
  • Tulane University

Early Modern

#Colonial and Viceregal